Domain Name System (DNS) and BIND

(last updated: 18-May-2015 18:58)
 

Books

  1. DNS and BIND; Crickett Liu and Paul Albitz; O'Reilly & Associates, 1992.
     
  2. DNS and BIND, Second Edition; Paul Albitz and Cricket Liu; O'Reilly & Associates, 1997.
     
  3. DNS and BIND, Third Edition; Paul Albitz and Cricket Liu; O'Reilly & Associates, 1998.
     
  4. DNS and BIND, Fourth Edition; Paul Albitz and Cricket Liu; O'Reilly & Associates, 2001.
     
  5. DNS and BIND Cookbook; Cricket Liu; O'Reilly & Associates, 2002.
     
  6. DNS on Windows NT; Paul Albitz, Matt Larson, and Cricket Liu; O'Reilly & Associates, 1998.
     
  7. DNS on Windows 2000, Second Edition; Matt Larson and Cricket Liu; O'Reilly & Associates, 2001.
     
  8. The Domain Name Handbook: High Stakes and Strategies in Cyberspace; Ellen Rony and Peter Rony; R&D Books, 1998.
     
  9. Linux DNS Server Administration; Craig Hunt; Sybex, 2000.

DNS and DNS Related RFCs

  1. RFC 920
    Domain Requirements.
     
  2. RFC 1032
    Domain Administrators Guide.
     
  3. RFC 1033
    Domain Administrators Operations Guide.
     
  4. RFC 1034
    Domain Names - Concepts and Facilities.
     
  5. RFC 1035
    Domain Names - Implementation and Specification.
     
  6. RFC 1101
    DNS Encodings of Network Names and Other Types.
     
  7. RFC 1123
    Requirements for Internet Hosts - Application and Support.
     
  8. RFC 1183
    New DNS RR Definitions.
     
  9. RFC 1591
    Domain Name System Structure and Delagation.
     
  10. RFC 1912
    Common DNS Operational and Configuration Errors.
     
  11. RFC 1995
    Incremental Zone Transfer in DNS.
     
  12. RFC 1996
    A Mechanism for Prompt Notification of Zone Changes (DNS NOTIFY).
     
  13. RFC 2100
    The Naming of Hosts.
     
  14. RFC 2136
    Dynamic Updates in the domain name system (DNS UPDATE).
     
  15. RFC 2181
    Clarifications to the DNS Specification.
     
  16. RFC 2182
    Selection and Operation of Secondary DNS Servers.
     
  17. RFC 2308
    Negative Caching of DNS Queries (DNS NCACHE).
     
  18. RFC 2317
    Classless IN-ADDR.ARPA delegation.
     
  19. RFC 2845
    Secret Key Transaction Authentication for DNS (TSIG).
     
  20. RFC 3225
    Indicating Resolver Support of DNSSEC.
     
  21. RFC 3226
    DNSSEC and IPv6 A6 aware server/resolver message size requirements.
     
  22. RFC 3597
    Handling of Unknown DNS Resource Record (RR) Types.
     
  23. RFC 3696
    Application Techniques for Checking and Transformation of Names.
     
  24. RFC 4033
    DNS Security Introduction and Requirements.
     
  25. RFC 4034
    Resource Records for the DNS Security Extensions.
     
  26. RFC 4035
    Protocol Modifications for the DNS Security Extensions.
     
  27. RFC 4343
    Domain Name System (DNS) Case Insensitivity Clarification.
     
  28. RFC 4470
    Minimally Covering NSEC Records and DNSSEC On-line Signing.
     
  29. RFC 4509
    Use of SHA-256 in DNSSEC Delegation Signer (DS) Resource Records.
     
  30. RFC 4592
    The Role of Wildcards in the Domain Name System.
     
  31. RFC 4635
    HMAC SHA TSIG Algorithm Identifiers.
     
  32. RFC 4892
    Requirements for a Mechanism Identifying a Name Server Instance.
     
  33. RFC 5001
    DNS Name Server Identification (NSID) Option.
     
  34. RFC 5011
    Automated Updates of DNS Security (DNSSEC) Trust Anchors.
     
  35. RFC 5155
    DNS Security (DNSSEC) Hashed Authenticated Denial of Existence.
     
  36. RFC 5452
    Measures for Making DNS More Resilent against Forged Answers.
     
  37. RFC 5625
    DNS Proxy Implementation Guidelines.
     
  38. RFC 5702
    Use of SHA-2 Algorithms with RSA in DNSKEY and RRSIG Resource Records for DNSSEC.
     
  39. RFC 5890
    Internationationalized Domain Names for Applications (IDNA): Definitions and Document Framework.
     
  40. RFC 5891
    Internationalized Domain Names in Applications (IDNA): Protocol.
     
  41. RFC 5892
    The Unicode Code Points and Internationalized Domain Names for Applications (IDNA).
     
  42. RFC 5893
    Right-to-Left Scripts for Internationalized Domain Names for Applications (IDNA).
     
  43. RFC 5894
    Internationalized Domain Names for Applications (IDNA): Background, Explanation and Rationale.
     
  44. RFC 5895
    Mapping Characters for Internationalized Domain Names in Applications (IDNA) 2008.
     
  45. RFC 5910
    Domain Name System (DNS) Security Extensions Mapping for the Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP).
     
  46. RFC 5933
    Use of GOST Signature Algorithms in DNSKEY and RRSIG Resource Records for DNSSEC.
     
  47. RFC 5966
    DNS Transport over TCP - Implementation Requirements.
     
  48. RFC 6672
    DNAME Redirection in the DNS.
     
  49. RFC 6891
    Extension Mechanisms for DNS (EDNS(0)).
     
  50. RFC 6895
    Domain Name System (DNS) IANA Considerations.
     
  51. RFC 3912
    WHOIS Protocol Specification.

Periodical Articles

  1. "How DNS Servers Work", PCM 15:16 Sep 24 1996 pgs 217-218.
     
  2. "The New BIND", UR 16:1 Jan 1998 pgs 21-24.

Web Pages and Websites

  1. Wikipedia article "Domain Name System".
     
  2. Wikipedia article "BIND".
     
  3. Wikipedia article "ICANN".
     
  4. Wikipedia article "Domain name registrar".
     
  5. Wikipedia article "Domain name registry".
     
  6. Wikipedia article "Domain registration".
     
  7. Wikipedia article "Domain privacy".
     
  8. ICANN website: https://www.icann.org
     
  9. InterNIC Whois search tool: http://www.internic.net/whois.html
     
  10. WHOis.net website: https://www.whois.net
     
  11. tucowsdomains Whois Lookup: http://www.tucowsdomains.com/whois-use-and-information/whoislookup/
     
  12. GoDaddy website: https://www.godaddy.com